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dossier	COM(2008)857 - Conclusion of the Interim Partnership Agreement with the Pacific States.
document	COM(2008)857
date	February 15, 2011

table>(1)On 12 June 2002, the Council authorised the Commission to open negotiations to conclude Economic Partnership Agreements with ACP countries.

(2)	Negotiations for an Interim Partnership Agreement (hereinafter referred to as the ‘interim EPA’) were concluded on 23 November 2007 with Papua New Guinea and the Republic of the Fiji Islands.

(3)	The interim EPA has not yet been concluded. Following the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon, the procedure to be followed to that end is laid down in Article 218 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.

(4)	The interim EPA should be concluded on behalf of the European Union,